Challenges to Democracy

IWM Summer School in Cortona 2003
Conferences and Workshops

In 2003, the IWM organized its 10th international Summer School in Philosophy and Politics. The School, which took place in Cortona (Tuscany), was managed in cooperation with the following partner institutions: the Erasmus of Rotterdam Chair and the Collegium for Interdepartmental Studies (both at the University of Warsaw), the New Europe College (Bucharest), the Center for Theoretical Study and the Institute for Contemporary History (both in Prague), and the Society for Higher Learning (Bratislava). Following an open competition, approximately fifty graduate students from Eastern and Western Europe and from the USA were selected to participate.

COURSE I

Liberalism and Its Critics I: Liberalism’s Critics and Liberalism’s Enemies: What is the Difference? John Gray and Marcin Król

COURSE II

Liberalism and Its Critics II: Does Politics Need a Theology?

Krzysztof Michalski and Michael Sandel

COURSE III

Democracy and its Potential for Self-destruction

Claus Offe and Ulrich Preuss

COURSE IV

After 1989: Transformations of International Order – European Perspectives

Aleksander Smolar and Jacques Rupnik

The Summer School is supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation.

Agenda

COURSE I

Liberalism and Its Critics I: Liberalism’s Critics and Liberalism’s Enemies: What is the Difference? John Gray and Marcin Król

COURSE II

Liberalism and Its Critics II: Does Politics Need a Theology?

Krzysztof Michalski and Michael Sandel

COURSE III

Democracy and its Potential for Self-destruction

Claus Offe and Ulrich Preuss

COURSE IV

After 1989: Transformations of International Order – European Perspectives

Aleksander Smolar and Jacques Rupnik

Partnership

The School, which took place in Cortona (Tuscany), was managed in cooperation with the following partner institutions: the Erasmus of Rotterdam Chair and the Collegium for Interdepartmental Studies (both at the University of Warsaw), the New Europe College (Bucharest), the Center for Theoretical Study and the Institute for Contemporary History (both in Prague), and the Society for Higher Learning (Bratislava).